The S/CG FX people are the only ones that did their job

Rating: 4/10 (17 July 2013)

So let me get this straight: you don't build actual long-ranged weapons for your giant robots, thus risking all those resources and time spent building them. Sounds like a plan. And you actually keep the incorporated sword blade from being used until pretty much the end of the movie - end that is the boring and cliché "world is saved in the nick of time, hero lives, hero gets girl, everyone lives happily ever after" (huge spoiler, I bet!). Risking your and everyone else's lives to show off your fisticuffs skills sounds like a good move every sane adult trying to save the world from an alien invasion would do.
And of course, the initially-presented-as-a-fact "syncing two people's brains and memories requires a tremendous compatibility" is rendered moot and butchered all throughout this movie. Unsurprising for - again - a script of this quality.
People die and nobody actually gives a damn because there's no story there, no connection, nothing serious. Acting is cringe-worthy and script is unoriginal as heck - characters more unidimensional than lines.
I'm surprised so many people give it 9s and 10s. Eye candy does please, apparently *insert "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" meme here* because that's all what this movie is.